Monday, August 25, 2008
Reading
The girls are often telling me I just have to read a certain book they are reading. I say, "Sure," and never seem to get around to it. A few weeks ago, I finally started on The Chronicles of Narnia. The movies were good enough for me to enjoy so I thought I should at least know the excitement of the books. I actually have really enjoyed them. Sarah is giving them to me in the order she thinks they should be read and I am on The Horse and His Boy. This may be stretching me a little too much. I am a sad product of a school system that graduated me having never read anything that was assigned to me. I read Black Beauty because I was going to be the next great horse rider. (That was before I actually ever got on a horse. After that I knew I was destined to walk through life.) Now - I love to read and always have a book with me. I just never got around to reading the classics. I plan to start on the Anne of Green Gables series next. Who knows, I may even tackle Jane Austen.
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You could just read Jane Austen's books, rather than tackling her. I've seen your muscles, and I'm not going to lie, Austen could cream you and she's been dead nearly a hundred years!
Every family should have two comedians like you!
I loved reading Anne of Green Gables! I had already seen the movie but loved the books so much more, especially the one after she married Gilbert!
I also really enjoy Jane Austen!
I have yet to read all the Chronicles. I agree about The Horse and His Boy. I hate to admit that when I was a public school teacher, teaching an advanced reading class (6th grade) this was one group's selection and I just couldn't get into it! So what is the recommended order and why isn't it the order they are shown in? BTW, thanks for reminding me, via your pictures of your sweet girls, to take beginning of the year pictures!
Happy Birthday to Lydia!
Blessings to you all! Eva Atkins
Hi Eva,
I am reading the books in the order that my daughter suggests. She says that the sequence of events are not in the order they were written. Some people question the order of them, but I have no idea. Right now I am almost through with Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Lori
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